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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000080035-25-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLPC"
cik: "0000080035"
company_name: "PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO"
filed_at: "2025-07-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T23:21:16.909478+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Preformed Line Products Q2 sales up 22% to $169.6M, EPS $2.56 (+35% YoY)

## Summary
- Net sales $169.6M (+22% YoY); net income $12.7M ($2.56 diluted EPS) vs $9.4M ($1.89) prior year.
- Gross margin 32.7% (+80 bps); strong US energy/communications and JAP Telecom acquisition contributed.
- Six-month net sales $318.1M (+14%); net income $24.2M ($4.89 diluted EPS).
- Executive Chairman cites tariff uncertainty from Section 232 steel/aluminum but mitigated by US manufacturing and price increases.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000080035-25-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLPC
- cik: 0000080035
- company_name: PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO
- filed_at: 2025-07-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80035/000008003525000011/0000080035-25-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80035/000008003525000011/plpc-20250730.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000080035-25-000011.txt

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